Archive for July, 2016

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  • “One of the great joys of traveling through Italy is discovering firsthand that it is, indeed, a dream destination.” ~ Debra Levinson
  • “Lake Como,” she said the little name to herself lingeringly. He had described a marble palace amongst cypress trees, had made her feel that she was there with him listening to the lap of the water, the singing of a nightingale, the love serenade of a boatman on the lake.” ~Anya Seton, Dragonwyck
  • For I will raise her statue in pure gold; That while Verona by that name is known, There shall no figure at such rate be set as that of true and faithful Juliet ~ William Shakespeare
  • “He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere” ~Patricia Highsmith
  • “Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.” ~Truman Capote
  • “Tulips were a tray of jewels.”~E.M. Forster, Howards End
  • “If everybody comes from somewhere else, nobody is a stranger.” ~Rien Vroegindeweij
  • “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”~ Charles M. Schulz
  • “Tiptoe through the window, By the window, that is where I’ll be. Come tiptoe through the tulips with me.” ~ Tiny Tim
  • “That’s what people do in Holland. They build dykes and ditches. They don’t drown. They’re brilliant engineers.”So I’ve heard,’ says Faro thoughtfully. ‘They’re very obstinate, those people in Holland.”~ Helen Dunmore, The Tide Knot

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